PhD candidate Catalina Ospina wins inaugural Thoma Fellowship

PhD candidate Catalina Ospina wins inaugural Thoma Fellowship

February 7, 2019

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Sixth year PhD candidate Catalina Ospina was awarded one of two pre-doctoral $45,000 fellowships from the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation to advance her dissertation work on the native Andean image-making technique mopa-mopa, commonly called barniz de Pasto. Based in Chicago, the Thoma Foundation awarded a total of $159,000 to fellowships and research grants for six scholars of Spanish colonial art, the first grants dedicating unrestricted funds to scholars of colonial Spanish American art and history.